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Alumni Notes
1960s
Retired accountant BOB O’SULLIVAN (B.S. ’65) lives in Sunset Beach, N.C. and has four children and seven grandchildren. “After getting married, I returned from my honeymoon to graduate from NYIT,” he says. O’Sullivan also received an award when earning his degree. “My mom and my wife of one week were sitting together in the audience,” he adds. “To say I was beaming is putting it lightly. I have always been proud to say that NYIT is my alma mater.”
1970s
ERIC JONES (B.F.A. ’70) started working
for ABC News as a desk assistant during his senior year. “The day I graduated from college, I moved to Los Angeles to break into the motion picture industry,” he says. “After 150 film projects, multiple Academy Award nominations, and working on television projects that have won many Emmys, I retired.” He advises: “Go for your dreams. Everything is possible!” LENNY MUROFF (B.F.A. ’70) worked in
commercial broadcasting and later began videotaping eye surgeries. He enrolled in an ophthalmic technicians program at Baylor College of Medicine, and since then, he has spent more than 30 years working in the ophthalmic field. He holds two U.S. patents for E-Z Drops, a product that helps people get eye drops into their eyes. Muroff recalls two documentaries he produced with NYIT classmates: “One was titled What Is Dirty, Ugly, and Gray? and dealt with the New York City subway system and the other was Worlds Within a City, which covered Greenwich Village, SoHo, the Bowery, and
Chinatown.” Today, he lives in Florida with his wife, Laurie. They have two children. MARK C. HEHL (B.S. ’72) published
Amusing Confessions of an International Consultant, which chronicles his experiences assisting organizations with operational excellence and technology transfer projects. He fondly recalls playing intramural sports at NYIT. “I was not a good athlete, though I made a play in the football championship and won it for my team,” he says. “That was the only time I was ever a hero in sports.” bit.ly/Mark-Hehl The Long Island Chapter of the American Institute of Architects presented the Community Service Award to JOHN R. SORRENTI (B.A. ’72, M.B.A. ’78), founder and president of JRS Architect P.C. Of his time at NYIT, he says, “I developed some of my most important friendships there, and the teachers have always been supportive of the students. Professor Anthony DiSanto offered me a summer job after graduation, and I learned so much from him—he even took me on my first business trip to Chicago with clients.” Sorrenti continues to support students through the Friends of the School of Architecture and Design, which helps fund a lecture series and other student-focused learning opportunities. “My memories of NYIT span almost 50, years and I’m still making new ones,” he adds. ROBERT PATRICK COOMBS (B.F.A. ’76)
received the Salmagundi Club’s 2017 William D. Zahn Memorial Award for his painting “Sagamore Boathouse.” FRANK RELF (B.S. ’76) demonstrated his
love of NYIT and commitment to student success by establishing the Frank G. Relf ’76 Annual Scholarship Award through NYIT’s Office of Development. “Our business [Frank G. Relf Architect, P.C.] is growing, with multiple hires just within the past year, including many NYIT